"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."

"For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages."

"I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness."

"I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European."

"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."

"I'm bisexual."

"I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract."